Count me in too! I've even entered the online PBS contests to win a trip to Highclere Castle - didn't win though (darn!). Tonight should be really good - I've already figured out which person belowstairs is leaving, hehe!

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Lola88♀ 41540Member # 41540

Posted: 6:35 PM, January 5th (Sunday), 2014

Seen it, loved it - enjoy!

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FaithFool♀ 20150Member # 20150

Posted: 7:58 PM, January 5th (Sunday), 2014

NIK, if I were you I'd catch the first two seasons on Netflix. By the time you're done with those, Season 3 should be out and you can catch that.

By the time you're done, they should have Season 4 on there. Or you can get it on ITunes. I would watch from the beginning, it's so much richer that way.

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So we're not allowed to discuss plot here? I think something big is going to happen based on something that was in the season premier.

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Afraid2LoveAgain♀ 11185Member # 11185

Posted: 5:37 AM, January 8th (Wednesday), 2014

I love your graphic, TrulyReconciled.

I'll miss O'Brien--even though it was blatantly foreshadowed that she would be leaving. I didn't get Rose's obsession with finding a replacement maid, unless she just felt that bad that her mother had taken O'Brien.

Also, WTH is Thomas doing after Bates save his ass (her Ladyship's soap). Thomas is the most complex of characters--one minute you feel sympathy for him and the next you want to throttle him.

Mary's words about Matthew being the only one who could see her softness choked me up. And, of course, Maggie Smith was stellar as always.

The whole Carson's old friends and Mrs. Crawley's taking him in seemed kind of out of place. Perhaps they are trying to round out Carson's role.

Undefinabl3-- you might be seeing the dates that it was telecast in the UK. They got it first, and we're just getting it now, so the whole season or most of it might be out there already. In fact, Julian Fellowes (creator of Downton) complained about that in a recent interview-- he wished that it could be simultaneously telecast in both countries so that there wouldn't be any spoilers on the internet to ruin it for the fans in the US!

Anyone else think that Edith should run for her life and away from her "I'll change my citizenship to German so I can get divorced" boyfriend? I think this is going to end tragically no matter how Fellowes plays it-- he's either going to die over in Germany during the post WWI unrest, or this whole thing is a lie, and Edith is going to meet his perfectly sane and decent wife, who is going to tell her that Edith is only one in a long string of mistresses who has fallen for his lies.

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GabyBaby♀ 26928Member # 26928

Posted: 11:58 AM, January 8th (Wednesday), 2014

Anyone else think that Edith should run for her life and away from her "I'll change my citizenship to German so I can get divorced" boyfriend? I think this is going to end tragically no matter how Fellowes plays it-- he's either going to die over in Germany during the post WWI unrest, or this whole thing is a lie, and Edith is going to meet his perfectly sane and decent wife, who is going to tell her that Edith is only one in a long string of mistresses who has fallen for his lies.